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Saturday, November 19. 2005My new AIM "Buddies"
Thanks to GAIM I have the ability to use multiple IM clients, which now a days is pretty much a necessesity, given that no two people use the same IM system. A few days ago I got a message from the AIM component about the forceable addition of two new buddies to my list, "MoviePhone" and "ShoppingBuddy" that got added to a "AIM Bots" sub-group.
It looks like AOL Time Warner thought of a new way to monitize their network. So far these "buddies" don't actually do a thing, and ignore any of the IMs I send them. I suspect in the future (Xmas time) they'll inform me of all sorts of "interesting" things... Fortunately while I had no ability to decline their addition GAIM appears to allow me to put them on ignore or removed them from my buddy list all together. Gotta wonder what's next... 
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I hope this will not start a trend and every major IM network will follow it adding stupid automated robots.
What's next: well, considering that most modern IM's are VoIP enabled, perhaps talking bots are fitting the best in this possible nightmare (or I'm too frustrated by this right now)
If anything, it'll start a trend of better ignoring/filtering abilities in 3rd party IM clients.
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Recently AOL decided to add two bots to AIM — Moviefone and ShoppingBuddy — irritating some users. AOL’s attitude seems to be that they can easily be deleted, but some netizens viewed this as intrusion. EveryTomorrow describes a h...
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